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The Matt Townsend Show

Matt Townsend specializes in energizing and involving audiences with his unique approach to building and maintaining successful relationships. Known as one of America"s top presenters in the field of Human Relations and Development, Matt blends humor and story telling with interactive, real-life solutions that motivate and inspire his listeners.

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91:16

Biases That Lead to Bad Money Decisions, Why We Mourn...

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2018/07/10

Cognitive Biases That Lead to Bad Money Decisions (14:03) Kristin Wong is an award-winning writer. Her contributions to MSN Living’s The Heart Beat blog won her an award from the Society of Professional Journalists. She regularly contributes to NBC News, Lifehacker, and Bankrate. Why is budgeting such a challenge for some of us? Well money isn’t hard because of the math, it’s the psychology that trips us up. How can we retake control of our minds and our wallets? Kristin Wong explains the cognitive

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89:25

How to Break Your Addiction to Work, Cost of Mental...

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2018/07/09

How to Break Your Addiction to Work (15:33) Rebecca Knight is a freelance journalist in Boston and a lecturer at Wesleyan University where she also teaches writing courses. She has written many pieces focused on personal finances and business education. Her work has been published in The New York Times, USA Today, and The Financial Times. For many of us, working simply feels good. But just because it feeds your ego or makes you feel important, that doesn’t mean it’s actually good for you. How do

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87:04

Optimists Find Jobs Easier, Thoughts to Change Your...

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2018/07/07

Optimists are Better at Finding New Jobs (15:18) Michelle Gielan is the Founder of the Institute for Applied Positive Research. She is an Executive Producer of “The Happiness Advantage” Special on PBS and a featured professor in Oprah’s Happiness course. Michelle Gielan is the author of the book "Broadcasting Happiness". Michelle Gielan wrote a Harvard Business Review article on how “optimists are better at finding new jobs”. She explains what she has discovered. Nine Thoughts That Can Change

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138:20

Invention of Dating, Don't Be Fooled, Screen Cleaning

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2018/07/06

Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating (13:09) Moira Weigel is a PhD Student at Yale University, in Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies. She earned her BA (summa cum laude) from Harvard University and is the author of "Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating", her first book. Men and women used to go out on dates but now seems that it’s all snapchat and tinder. But is that really as awful as it seems? How did we decide what’s appropriate for dating? And how did dating even start? Moira

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82:08

Mind in the Making, Psychology of Baby Names

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2018/07/05

Mind in the Making (10:27) Ellen Galinsky is President and Co-Founder of Families and Work Institute. She helped establish the field of work and family life during the time she was at Bank Street College of Education, where she was on the faculty for 25 years. Her more than 100 books and reports include the best-selling Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs. Ellen Galinsky shares skills you can teach your children the skills they need for success. She is the author

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81:05

Good Husband, Great Marriage, Virtual and Real World

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2018/07/04

Good Husband, Great Marriage (11:28) Robert and Jane Alter are the authors of “Good Husband, Great Marriage”, a hard-hitting, no-nonsense guidebook for men and women to help them fix their marriages. Robert Alter's central, controversial argument: the man is primarily responsible for the marital problems. Robert and Jane Alter explain how men have responsibility to make changes to fix their marriage. Learning to Balance the Virtual and Real World (53:16) Holland Haiss is a successful business

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84:30

Why You Like What You Like, Music for Anxiety and...

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2018/07/03

Why You Like What You Like (11:44) Tom Vanderbilt is a contributing Editor at Wired (U.K.), Outside, and Artforum and the author of New York Times Best Seller: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do. Tom Vanderbilt is also the author of "You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice". Tom Vanderbilt explains why we like what we like. Using Music to Treat Anxiety and Depression (52:54) Dr. Steven Hayes is the foundation professor of behavioral analysis at the University of Nevada Reno. Dr

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78:53

Train the Brain to Lose Weight, Benefits of a Bromance

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2018/07/02

Train the Brain to Lose Weight (9:52) Laurel Mellin, Ph.D., is a health psychologist who founded and developed emotional brain training. She is an associate clinical professor of family and community medicine and pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Mellin has authored papers on the science and efficacy of EBT and is a New York Times bestselling author of four books on the method. Dr. Mellin explains how to take control of your brain to meet personal goals like weight

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85:06

Switched On, If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?

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2018/06/30

Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening (12:19) John Elder Robison is a New York Times Best Selling Author for his book, "Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's". Imagine living without one of your senses and one day it’s switched on. Suddenly you can hear for the first time or see color. John Elder Robison, knows what that feels like, but John wasn’t blind or deaf before this miraculous change. Mr. Robison has Asperger’s, a form of autism, that left him without the

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138:11

College of Chinese Philosophers, Blind Solo Runner,...

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2018/06/29

What We Can Learn from Chinese Philosophers (11:12) Michael Puett, Ph.D., is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. Christine Gross-Loh is a journalist and author of several books, including the book we’re talking about today: "The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life". Both share what Chinese philosophers taught and how that can improve our daily lives. Blind Solo Runner

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92:30

How to Solve Unsolvable Problems, Human Cultural...

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2018/06/28

How to Solve Unsolvable Problems (14:50) David Niven, Ph.D., is the author of the book: "It's Not About the Shark: How to Solve Unsolvable Problems". Dr. Niven’s "The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People" – and seven other titles in the series – has sold more than 1 million copies in the U.S., and has been translated in 30 languages. Dr. Niven shares his approach to solve tough problems by focusing on the solution. Human Cultural Evolution (1:00:19) Joseph Henrich, Ph.D., is the Canada Research

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85:43

Resolve Emotional Conflicts, What Your Mom Has to Do...

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2018/06/27

Resolve Emotionally-Charged Conflicts (12:39) Daniel Shapiro, Ph.D., is the founder and director of the Harvard International Negotiation Program, which pioneers innovative strategies and teaching methodologies to address the human dimensions of conflict resolution. Dr. Shapiro is the author of the book "Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts" and explains how to deal with emotional arguments. What Your Mom Has to Do With Marriage (55:35) Liz

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93:01

The Cost of Eating Healthy, Firing Up Your Metabolism

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2018/06/26

The Cost of Eating Healthy (16:15) Margaret Marshall is a contributor to the Huffington Post and founder of Margaret Marshall Assoc., and the “Why Weight” coaching method. She is a wellness consultant, a speaker, author, and weight-loss coach. Her book, “Body, Mind, and Mouth…Life’s Eating Connection” was released in 2012. Her e-book, the “Five Finger Food Guide”, followed in 2014. Margaret Marshall explains The Cost of Being Healthy. Firing Up Your Metabolism (1:02:19) Claudia le Feuvre is a

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84:10

No Place Like Home, Proof of Heaven

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2018/06/25

No Place Like Home: Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership (9:45) Dr. Brian McCabe is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Teaches courses on urban studies, neighborhood inequalities and quantitative methods for social research. For decades, owning a home has been a major status symbol, and for most Americans, it is the most important and largest financial investment of their lives. It also provides individuals and families with a sense of community. However,

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85:37

Live Happy, Choose Joy, Why Girls Tend to Have More...

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2018/06/23

Live Happy, Choose Joy (14:30) Deborah Heisz is COO, Co-Founder and Editorial Director of Live Happy LLC. She is the author of Live Happy: Ten Practices for Choosing Joy. She was the founding Editor in Chief of the current version of SUCCESS magazine (2008-2011). She is Editorial Director of Magazine “Live Happy”. With the rising interest in positive psychology and mindful living, it is becoming clearer that living a joyful life is a choice. Practices for choosing joyful living range from

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94:21

Blue Light and our Bodies, Wrong Personality for the Job

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2018/06/22

Blue Light and our Bodies (15:43) Dr. Geoffrey Goodfellow is an Associate Professor, Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Assessment; Coordinator and Private Practice Clerkship at Illinois College of Optometry. Dr. Goodfellow has served as the site coordinator for the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigators Group as well as the chief of the Pediatrics/Binocular Vision Service. Apple recently released some new products with new features. Among these were a new iPad Pro and a new iPhone. These products come

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96:26

Adulting, How We Think the Internet Connects Us

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2018/06/21

Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up (16:01) Kelly Williams Brown is the author of Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps. Growing up is an ever challenging, ever changing endeavor. Each generation deals with it in their own way. Kelly Brown has literally written the book on growing up and shares what she has learned from interviewing people from all walks of life. How We Think the Internet Connects Us (1:03:52) Ethan Zuckerman is the Director of the Center for Civic Media at

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96:50

When Religion and Work Conflict, Level Up Your Life

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2018/06/20

When Religion and Work Conflict (17:00) Kabrina Krebel Chang is the Clinical Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics at Boston University. She spends a lot of time researching and collaborating with experts on new ways of innovating business strategies and education. Since 2007, the number of complaints for religious discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has risen significantly. It’s not hard to see why: An increase in immigrants of diverse faiths,

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100:46

Resisting Technology Appalachian-Style, Job Burnout

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2018/06/19

Resisting Technology, Appalachian-Style (15:16) Sherry Hamby is Research Professor of Psychology and Director of the Life Paths Research Program at the University of the South. Dr. Hamby is also founding editor of the American Psychological Association journal Psychology of Violence. When people hear “Appalachia,” stereotypes and jokes may jump to mind, so we asked one of our employees from West Virginia what jokes she knew. We heard “land of the toothless,” “our family trees go in circles,” and

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97:54

Libraries in the Internet Age, Marriage and the Art...

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2018/06/18

Libraries in the Internet Age (13:33) Donald Barclay is the Deputy University Librarian at the University of California Merced campus. He graduated in 1990 from Cal Berkeley with his Master of Library and Information Science. Libraries. What visuals enter your mind when you hear the word library? Maybe an old curmudgeon shushing you, maybe you remember sitting on the floor as a child while hearing a story, or maybe you think of hours searching computers and bookshelves for an academic

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